PD News

Friday, February 10, 2012

Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and NEPA Garage Sales

Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and NEPA Cars for Sale

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Memorial Books placed at the Pittston Library

The following memorial books have been placed on the shelves of the Pittston Library:

Were you flooded? Send us your name

The Sunday Dispatch named “Our Flooded Neighbors” as Persons of the Year for 2011. Now we want to recognize you by name.

Little Giant all grown up

Taylor Crawford has been a Giants fan since she was toddler. Not that she had any choice. She was fated to be a Giant fan from the day in 1987 when she was 14 months old and her father Joe, a Giants diehard, put a Giants shirt on her and brought her to the Dispatch office and told her to “Do a touchdown.”

‘Sharpie’ got a pool lesson 60 years ago

In 1952, what did Nick Mauriello, of Exeter; “Polish Benny” of Plains, Joe Baker and Andy Kelly, of Dupont, Henry Meade and Owen McAndrew, of Avoca, “Koochie” Weiskerger, of Pittston; Joe Corcoran and “Stumpy” Stonik have in common?

Proud Patriot since ’07

Alex Gross is a New England Patriots fanatic. Most Sundays his team isn’t on TV, but that’s not as bad as it might be because, as Alex says, “There’s an app for that.”

Local man one giant of a Giants fan

Just how big a Giant fan is Joel Skursky?

Council work session scheduled Thursday

Hughestown Borough Council work session will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 9 with Wayne Quick presiding.

Oakland A’s announcer Friendly Sons speaker

Avoca native, Richard (Dick) Callahan will return to the Greater Pittston Area for the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 98th Annual Banquet to be held on Saturday night March 17, at the Woodlands Inn and Resort on Rt. 315 in Plains.

Friday, February 3, 2012

State Supreme Court issues redistricting opinion; election season in chaos

Acknowledging the uncertainty and confusion their ruling created, the chief justice of the state Supreme Court explained his reasoning Friday for rejecting the state’s legislative redistricting plan last week. But the court declined to lay out a specific way forward for the 2012 elections.

Hearing on homeless veterans slated for Monday

HARRISBURG – The state Senate Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee, chaired by Sen. Lisa Baker, R-Lehman Township, will hold a public hearing on Monday, to examine homelessness among veterans.

National jobless rate at lowest level in three years

WASHINGTON — In the most impressive surge for the job market since the middle of last decade, the United States added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.